Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 651 719
Rank change year-on-year +97 +68 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 17 114 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.15% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.16% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 16 97 30
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,563 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £49,000 £46,387
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £54,565 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £59,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +25 5 £45,500 +7.06% 2
Scotland - 5 £50,000 - 2
South West +106 2 £51,729 -10.04% 4
Yorkshire +62 2 £50,250 +34.95% 1
South East +39 2 £27,500 -45.00% 10
East of England +33 2 £42,500 -5.56% 3
North West -15 2 £47,500 +11.76% 1
West Midlands +58 1 £45,000 - 3
North East +48 1 £44,500 +53.45%
Midlands +47 1 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Network Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Firewall
3 9 (52.94%) Windows
4 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
4 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
5 7 (41.18%) DNS
5 7 (41.18%) Cisco
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 7 (41.18%) VMware
5 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Azure
7 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (29.41%) DHCP
8 4 (23.53%) LAN
8 4 (23.53%) WAN
8 4 (23.53%) BGP
8 4 (23.53%) Network Security
8 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
8 4 (23.53%) Nutanix
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
9 3 (17.65%) AWS
9 3 (17.65%) VLAN
9 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
9 3 (17.65%) Migration
9 3 (17.65%) Agile
9 3 (17.65%) OSPF
9 3 (17.65%) Linux
10 2 (11.76%) Apache

Network Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Nutanix
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
3 7 (41.18%) DNS
4 5 (29.41%) DHCP
5 4 (23.53%) BGP
5 4 (23.53%) LAN
5 4 (23.53%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) WAN
6 3 (17.65%) OSPF
6 3 (17.65%) VLAN
7 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
7 2 (11.76%) VPN
7 2 (11.76%) Wireless
8 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (5.88%) SAN
General
1 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) CCTV
3 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 2 (11.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.76%) Server Building
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.76%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Cisco
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
1 7 (41.18%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Aruba
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos
4 1 (5.88%) Synology
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam